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The Domains
Your Tax Dollars At Work: Clinton Department Of State Email’s Shows Interest In A Domain
One of the unclassified emails from the Hillary Clinton fiasco shows she or someone at the Department of State had an interest in a domain name around the term “World We Want” but seemed to pass on buying the bang on domain which was pric...
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Your Tax Dollars At Work: Clinton Department Of State Email’s Shows Interest In A Domain
One of the unclassified emails from the Hillary Clinton fiasco shows she or someone at the Department of State had an interest in a domain name around the term “World We Want” but seemed to pass on buying the bang on domain which was pric...
Discussion
February 13, 2016, 1:41 pm
Domain Shane
DSAD.com: Domain Shane’s Daily List of Domains at Auction for Saturday, Feb 13th
RIP DnForum.com. We are going to miss you dearly. Not the recent DNF but the old DNF. Where everyone went to buy, sell, and talk domain. I spent hours there learning about domains. Looking at sales, meeting new people, it wa...
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DSAD.com: Domain Shane’s Daily List of Domains at Auction for Saturday, Feb 13th
RIP DnForum.com. We are going to miss you dearly. Not the recent DNF but the old DNF. Where everyone went to buy, sell, and talk domain. I spent hours there learning about domains. Looking at sales, meeting new people, it wa...
Discussion
February 13, 2016, 10:32 am
Domain Shane
Update on Top 10 Sales from a Year Ago: SheIn.com, Dabba.com, Bao.tv, More
Listed below are updates on the top 10 sales from a year ago this week, as ranked by DN Journal. 1. SheIn.com sold for $95,000 That’s not “Shein”, it’s “She In”. The domain was acquired as part of a rebrand from Sh...
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Update on Top 10 Sales from a Year Ago: SheIn.com, Dabba.com, Bao.tv, More
Listed below are updates on the top 10 sales from a year ago this week, as ranked by DN Journal. 1. SheIn.com sold for $95,000 That’s not “Shein”, it’s “She In”. The domain was acquired as part of a rebrand from Sh...
Discussion
February 12, 2016, 10:23 pm
The Domains
Market Recap 2/12/16 Web.com up over 10% – Verisign up close to 4%
Market Recap 2/12/16 Web.com (WWWW) was up over 10% today, the company posted earnings last night (Non-GAAP EPS were $0.66, three cents above estimates) and received several upgrades today. Verisign (VRSN) was up close to 4% today and closed at $76.9...
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Market Recap 2/12/16 Web.com up over 10% – Verisign up close to 4%
Market Recap 2/12/16 Web.com (WWWW) was up over 10% today, the company posted earnings last night (Non-GAAP EPS were $0.66, three cents above estimates) and received several upgrades today. Verisign (VRSN) was up close to 4% today and closed at $76.9...
Discussion
February 12, 2016, 9:44 pm
The Domains
Rightside Establishes Wholly Foreign-Owned Enterprise in China & Plans To Be Licensed in 2016
Rightside (NAME) announced today its expanded operations in China by establishing a Wholly Foreign-Owned Enterprise (WFOE). Rightside says that there are almost 90,000 domains registered in the their portfolio of 39 new gTLD’s in the Chinese ma...
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Rightside Establishes Wholly Foreign-Owned Enterprise in China & Plans To Be Licensed in 2016
Rightside (NAME) announced today its expanded operations in China by establishing a Wholly Foreign-Owned Enterprise (WFOE). Rightside says that there are almost 90,000 domains registered in the their portfolio of 39 new gTLD’s in the Chinese ma...
Discussion
February 12, 2016, 6:53 pm
The Domains
.Pro Domain Extension Hits All Time High Number of Domain Registrations
On November 15th the restrictions on the TLD .Pro were lifted. Since it was approved in 2000, .Pro domain names had been restricted to to three classes of professions; lawyers, doctors, and accountants. According to Domainincite.com, “.pro star...
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.Pro Domain Extension Hits All Time High Number of Domain Registrations
On November 15th the restrictions on the TLD .Pro were lifted. Since it was approved in 2000, .Pro domain names had been restricted to to three classes of professions; lawyers, doctors, and accountants. According to Domainincite.com, “.pro star...
Discussion
February 12, 2016, 6:11 pm
Domain Shane
CHINESE SALES TRENDS FOR FEBRUARY 12, 2016
There must have been one or more really nice 6N.com (No 0/4) sales yesterday to spike the average up to $880. I can see most of the sales yesterday, and none of them are anywhere near that. Unfortunately, the large sale or sales have alre...
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CHINESE SALES TRENDS FOR FEBRUARY 12, 2016
There must have been one or more really nice 6N.com (No 0/4) sales yesterday to spike the average up to $880. I can see most of the sales yesterday, and none of them are anywhere near that. Unfortunately, the large sale or sales have alre...
Discussion
February 12, 2016, 5:19 pm
Domain Name Wire
What domain names Mozilla and others bought last week
Mozilla buys domain names for open web game. It used to be that domain name marketplaces saw a sales slowdown over major Western holidays, particularly Christmas. Now, there’s another holiday that dials things back: Chinese New Year. Sedo handl...
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What domain names Mozilla and others bought last week
Mozilla buys domain names for open web game. It used to be that domain name marketplaces saw a sales slowdown over major Western holidays, particularly Christmas. Now, there’s another holiday that dials things back: Chinese New Year. Sedo handl...
Discussion
February 12, 2016, 5:01 pm
Domain Name Wire
Verisign: What goes up might come down
Strong end of 2015 could make for a challenging end to 2016. .Com domain name registry Verisign reported Q4 results after the bell yesterday. Thanks to Chinese domain name investors, the company had 12.2 million new domain name registrations for .com...
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Verisign: What goes up might come down
Strong end of 2015 could make for a challenging end to 2016. .Com domain name registry Verisign reported Q4 results after the bell yesterday. Thanks to Chinese domain name investors, the company had 12.2 million new domain name registrations for .com...
Discussion
February 12, 2016, 3:06 pm
Domain Shane
DSAD.com: Domain Shane’s Daily List of Domains at Auction for Friday, Feb 12th
The NamesCon 2016 highlight reel came out yesterday and as expected, the annual meeting of Aaron and I about the future offerings of DSAD, was captured in its entirety on video. You can click the photo below to see the whole video ...
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DSAD.com: Domain Shane’s Daily List of Domains at Auction for Friday, Feb 12th
The NamesCon 2016 highlight reel came out yesterday and as expected, the annual meeting of Aaron and I about the future offerings of DSAD, was captured in its entirety on video. You can click the photo below to see the whole video ...
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February 12, 2016, 10:05 am
